Cinemasochism

This work deals with the study of sexuality in spectator’s relation to the film. Such relation to film image is masochistic in its nature, as cinema is real, material and forcefully affective. The cinesexual relation is inter-kingdom relation because art and physiology are traversed and cross breed....

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Main Author:	Patricia MacCormack
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Singidunum University. Faculty of Media and Communications 2013-06-01
Series:	AM: Art + Media
Subjects:	cinesexuality, sexuality, film, gender, avisuality, masochism
Online Access:	http://fmkjournals.fmk.edu.rs/index.php/AM/article/view/33

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spelling	doaj-4fdf4f853a5d409197da0ff3dc2082ec2020-11-24T23:24:23ZengSingidunum University. Faculty of Media and CommunicationsAM: Art + Media2217-96662406-16542013-06-0103244510.25038/am.v0i3.3334CinemasochismPatricia MacCormack0Department of Communication and Film, Anglia Ruskin UniversityThis work deals with the study of sexuality in spectator’s relation to the film. Such relation to film image is masochistic in its nature, as cinema is real, material and forcefully affective. The cinesexual relation is inter-kingdom relation because art and physiology are traversed and cross breed. As such, the encounter between the image and the body is one of the silence and avisuality, and spectatorship can be thought as an avisual practice of self. Cinemasochism embraces the impossibility of self in the face of the force of the image without, acknowledging the impossibility within all representation or signification.http://fmkjournals.fmk.edu.rs/index.php/AM/article/view/33cinesexuality, sexuality, film, gender, avisuality, masochism
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description	This work deals with the study of sexuality in spectator’s relation to the film. Such relation to film image is masochistic in its nature, as cinema is real, material and forcefully affective. The cinesexual relation is inter-kingdom relation because art and physiology are traversed and cross breed. As such, the encounter between the image and the body is one of the silence and avisuality, and spectatorship can be thought as an avisual practice of self. Cinemasochism embraces the impossibility of self in the face of the force of the image without, acknowledging the impossibility within all representation or signification.
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